Last year at around 7.30pm on Friday, July 1, police received a report that a man had fallen from a moving white Vito Mercedes van on the Coast Road in Wallsend.
Emergency services were swiftly deployed to the scene and found a seriously injured man who was bound at the wrists with cable ties, lying in the middle of the road.
The man – then aged 34 – was rushed to hospital in a critical condition and an investigation was immediately launched by officers to establish the full circumstances surrounding the incident.
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